Anthony Horowitz

How do you solve a murder... when everyone has the same motive? From global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. 'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times '[Horowitz is] a master puppeteer' The Times 'Anthony Horowitz is an absolutely exceptional writer' Daniel Mays 'Incredible plotting, richly layered and wonderfully intricate. I inhaled it' Liz Nugent 'Another delightful outing with Hawthorne and Horowitz. Each one is more inventive than the last' Shari Lapena 'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure' Ragnar Jónasson Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close - a quiet, gated community - seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life. At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool in his garden. His neighbours all have a reason to hate him and are soon up in arms. When Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, all of them come under suspicion and his murder opens the door to lies, deception and further death. The police are baffled. Reluctantly, they call in former Detective Daniel Hawthorne. But even he is faced with a seemingly impossible puzzle. How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive? More love for Close to Death... 'The Lord of television mystery' LA Times 'A clever murder mystery...playful and twisty. Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz' Crime Time FM 'Spectacularly good fun, wickedly clever, with a pinch of the macabre, this is everything you could wish for from one of our top crime writers.' The Sun 'Just when you thought Horowitz couldn't further stretch his boundary-bending Daniel Hawthorne detective series, he concocts yet another way to involve readers in his story' The Washington Post 'The mystery is inventive, elegant and smart' The Telegraph 'Sheer genius... A joy from start to finish' Independent 'Whodunnit heaven' Financial Times 'An absolutely engrossing tale... Kudos to anyone who can figure this one out!' Starred Booklist 'An exceedingly entertaining and inventive mixture of humour and suspense.' Wall Street Journal 'Gloriously artificial, improbable, and ingenious. Fans of both versions of Horowitz will rejoice.' Kirkus Reviews 'Turns the closed-circle mystery inside out' New York Journal of Books 'The master of the mystery' Style 'The king of the clever whodunnit' Good Housekeeping 'A delirious concoction that transplants a Christie-style mystery into the present' Crime Time 'An excellent entertaining thriller' The Afterword Sunday Times bestseller, April 2024 One of the Wall Street Journal's best mysteries of 2024

From bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, comes a new novel in the bestselling Magpie Murders series in which editor, Susan Ryeland, uncovers the clues in an Atticus Pünd mystery to solve a murder. 'A masterclass in mystery writing' Ragnar Jónasson 'Expect plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders' Express 'Horowitz is a genius' Terry Deary Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. She's edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she's come close to being killed. Now she's back in England and she's been persuaded to work on a third. The new 'continuation' novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children's author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago. Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam's killer inside his book, Susan knows she's in trouble once again. As Susan works on Pünd's Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world - until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself. It seems that someone in Eliot's family doesn't want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it. More love for Marble Hall Murders: 'Diabolically clever' New York Times 'The computer isn't born that can out-plot Horowitz' The Daily Telegraph 'Worthy of Agatha Christie' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review '[A] page-turner of a puzzle' Washington Post 'Horowitz is one of the great masters of the contemporary page turner' Andrew Marr 'Anthony Horowitz is one of my all-time favourite authors. Marble Hall Murders is a beautiful read' Ryan Tubridy Readers love Marble Hall Murders: 'A must-read!' 5-star reader review 'One of the top crime books of 2025' 5-star reader review 'Absolutely brilliant!' 5-star reader review 'Smart, gorgeously written and compelling' 5-star reader review 'An excellent whodunnit' 5-star reader review 'Absolute perfection' 5-star reader review